NHL 13 & General Video Game Discussion Part Quatre

I have been reading every single one of your Sim City updates and it's gotten to the point where I am completely lost whenever you talk about anything but population. I have no idea what is happening anymore, but I am happy for you and hope it all continues to work out for you.

Also, Halo 4 map pack comes out soon. I might start playing again when it does. All three are small arena-style maps. Whoop whoop!

I have been reading every single one of your Sim City updates and it's gotten to the point where I am completely lost whenever you talk about anything but population. I have no idea what is happening anymore, but I am happy for you and hope it all continues to work out for you.

Not sarcastic. You're talking about redoing subways to cut down on time or something and I understand the words and all that, but not how that correlates to people and then you're talking about tiles and some other mumbo jumbo that confuses me and so on and so on. I do wish you luck though. Seems like you're having a good time.

I used to play Zoo Tycoon, if that is anything like what you're doing. I remember normal zoo tycoon, then there was a dinosaur one that was so amazing. I remember I'd work super hard to get my visitor numbers up to a certain point, like a few hundred thousand a day or something, then I'd build a cage wall to cut off the entrance to the park and then "accidentally" delete a fence on the T-rex exhibit. Aww lawdy lawdy, call me a sadistic ***** or something, but it was hilarious.

Reading this thread has made me realize how behind I am on everything. I use to be a pretty hardcore gamer (not sports games though), and haven't had the time to turn my xbox on for anything other than a few games here and there.

I'm still trying to figure out how to pass in NHL13, and you jerks are talking about trading pucks and making all MN teams...things that are all way over my head. I might as well sell the damn game now and take my 10 bucks to wipe my tears with.

The most recent update that is available is January 24. No Rupp(Powe) and no Brodin for me. Which is a shame because the put out two per month in December and January. And somehow EA manages to bust out a FIFA update every week or so.

Not sarcastic. You're talking about redoing subways to cut down on time or something and I understand the words and all that, but not how that correlates to people and then you're talking about tiles and some other mumbo jumbo that confuses me and so on and so on. I do wish you luck though. Seems like you're having a good time.

I used to play Zoo Tycoon, if that is anything like what you're doing. I remember normal zoo tycoon, then there was a dinosaur one that was so amazing. I remember I'd work super hard to get my visitor numbers up to a certain point, like a few hundred thousand a day or something, then I'd build a cage wall to cut off the entrance to the park and then "accidentally" delete a fence on the T-rex exhibit. Aww lawdy lawdy, call me a sadistic ***** or something, but it was hilarious.

Haha, that is awesome. I do that sometimes when I get pissed off at a city. I'll just take out ye olde' disaster menu and start to rain down meteors and hostile aliens and earthquakes and all kinds of stuff. And if I'm really feeling mean, I'll shut off the fire departments, drop a couple of nuclear plants around town and then deliberately cause them to melt down. Good times man, good times.

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Originally Posted by Puhis

I was only half lost through that update. I kind of got what was your problem and why you needed to solve it and what it achieved, but can't tell WHAT you did to solve it.

I mean, "put the stations on bypasses" kind of escaped me.

Well the problem I was addressing was subway line congestion. You see, in a city with 3,100,000 sims in it, almost every subway line I have in the city is congested because EVERYONE takes the subway with the Network Addon Mod installed (no really, my subway to car traffic ratio is at least 3:1 or something).

The way I had my subway set up when I originally built it is like this (=== subway line X station):

====X======X=====X

With the stations directly on the line. What that does is add to the congestion, because while the subway lines themselves have a very very high capacity, the stations do not. So subway traffic gets backed up waiting to get through a congested station, it makes congestion worse and nobody is happy.

So what I did was totally re-built the system with the main lines offset from where the stations are, and each station gets its own little line that hooks back into the main line, so that main-line traffic just keeps going since intersections do not slow subways down at all.

Looks sort of like this (if this shows up right)

================= <---main line
|| || <---Individual station lines coming off the main line
=X= <--- subway station no longer directly on the main line

So the main lines have now bypassed all of the stations. Think of it like a limited access highway. Once you are on the highway, you get to go full speed from wherever you got on, to wherever you are going because there are no stop lights. These little station lines jutting off the main subway line are like the on and off ramps.

Doing this cut my commute time in half, because now the only congestion on the main lines is from actual subway volume, not from waiting to get through crowded stations.

And cutting commute time results in an increase in desirability, which leads to crappy low-wealth tenements being leveled in favor of fancy mid-wealth deluxe apartments, and a slight increase in population. I think I gained something like 50,000 on the strength of this upgrade. But I still think it would be pretty hard to push 3,200,000 at this point, as packed as this city already is.

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Originally Posted by StealthClobber

Avder do you plan on getting the new SimCity?

I'm considering it. I'm going to wait until after launch tho, at least, for them to get the bugs worked out of the system, and also to see if someone on youtube does a lets play of it that can get me interested.

I just played against one of the biggest ****ing idiots in NHL 13. 6-5 for him, start of the 3rd and all he did was staying in his ****ing zone while I keep trying to poke check him because I started to dominate him the period before. Also, he somehow found a way to score from his own ****ing zone to make it 7-5 at the end of the game. (No empty net) I hope I won't see him again because I'd be ready for a rematch anytime.

I just played against one of the biggest ****ing idiots in NHL 13. 6-5 for him, start of the 3rd and all he did was staying in his ****ing zone while I keep trying to poke check him because I started to dominate him the period before. Also, he somehow found a way to score from his own ****ing zone to make it 7-5 at the end of the game. (No empty net) I hope I won't see him again because I'd be ready for a rematch anytime.

I just played against one of the biggest ****ing idiots in NHL 13. 6-5 for him, start of the 3rd and all he did was staying in his ****ing zone while I keep trying to poke check him because I started to dominate him the period before. Also, he somehow found a way to score from his own ****ing zone to make it 7-5 at the end of the game. (No empty net) I hope I won't see him again because I'd be ready for a rematch anytime.

**** like this is the reason why I broke a controller for the first time since N64. I full on football touchdown spiked my controller because of an idiot like you described.

Rage like no other

Also- I'm watching the PS4 announcement event thing on gametrailers, and this is boring as ****. I want pictures and specs. I don't care about how "the core performance of the console would be essential to the success, but the cross-platform connectibility needs to vary in order to truly connect to the player" shut the **** up and announce the thing already. Jeez.

Well the problem I was addressing was subway line congestion. You see, in a city with 3,100,000 sims in it, almost every subway line I have in the city is congested because EVERYONE takes the subway with the Network Addon Mod installed (no really, my subway to car traffic ratio is at least 3:1 or something).

The way I had my subway set up when I originally built it is like this (=== subway line X station):

====X======X=====X

With the stations directly on the line. What that does is add to the congestion, because while the subway lines themselves have a very very high capacity, the stations do not. So subway traffic gets backed up waiting to get through a congested station, it makes congestion worse and nobody is happy.

So what I did was totally re-built the system with the main lines offset from where the stations are, and each station gets its own little line that hooks back into the main line, so that main-line traffic just keeps going since intersections do not slow subways down at all.

Looks sort of like this (if this shows up right)

================= <---main line
|| || <---Individual station lines coming off the main line
=X= <--- subway station no longer directly on the main line

So the main lines have now bypassed all of the stations. Think of it like a limited access highway. Once you are on the highway, you get to go full speed from wherever you got on, to wherever you are going because there are no stop lights. These little station lines jutting off the main subway line are like the on and off ramps.

Doing this cut my commute time in half, because now the only congestion on the main lines is from actual subway volume, not from waiting to get through crowded stations.

And cutting commute time results in an increase in desirability, which leads to crappy low-wealth tenements being leveled in favor of fancy mid-wealth deluxe apartments, and a slight increase in population. I think I gained something like 50,000 on the strength of this upgrade. But I still think it would be pretty hard to push 3,200,000 at this point, as packed as this city already is.

Oh, that's very clever. I never managed to grow big enough of a city to justify building a subway, but... I still did it anyway. Good times, and flat broke cities.

Started playing little more Civilization V recently. I downloaded the Finland civ that some fan has made, and it's brilliant. Comes with Finlandia suite by Jean Sibelius as the default leader music, with other tunes accompanying the great soundtrack. Sauna, which replaces the shrine, is the civilization special building and special troop is the Ski Troop, which I can assume replaces infantry, haven't got that far yet.

I'm currently at somewhere around year 1780, and I already discovered electricity and therefore aluminum. Finished building the Eiffel Tower as well. I must confess, I'm playing this one on King difficulty though, usually playing on Emperor but I don't want to get my butt handed to me after taking a long hiatus from the game.

Also, Netherlands had the poor luck of being virtually next to me, and after they asked me if I was planning to attack (because I stationed my troops next to my border against them, fearing an attack from them), I just decided "**** it" and chose the "You're right, and it's time for you to die!" -option.

It was a successful invasion, and I managed to grab most of their cities, including their capital, before Napoleon (who was also in war with them) got his hands on them.

The upside was that I practically doubled my territory as well as my city count (from 4 to 8). The downside was (and is) that now pretty much every other leader thinks of me as a blood-thirsty tyrant, which lead to some pretty hostile comments, a lot of denouncements and Sweden, Germany and Austria eventually declaring a war on me. Now I'm fighting the Swedes to my east, trying to hold them off and maybe advance slightly, and the Krauts to my west. Austria is thankfully about half a map away from me to the south so I don't really have to worry about them, although I did sink one of their frigates with my galleas.

The rosters need a lot of work. Karlsson's like the 30th ranked d-man, Derek Roy is an 86 and better than guys like Koivu and Kopitar, just to name a few. I hate to complain, but they either a) only care about online play($$$) or b) no one there knows anything about hockey.